A new Pew Research poll shows American support for keeping NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan is continuing to fall — to 50 percent in September, a 7-point drop-off since June.
The number of people who want American troops to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible rose during the same period — from 38 percent to 43 percent.
The fall off in support for keeping troops in Afghanistan held across political groups. The poll found that Republican support for keeping troops in Afghanistan dropped from 75 percent to 71 percent; among Democrats, support fell from 45 percent to 37 percent; and among independents, from from 57 percent to 51 percent.
